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To the Editor: Re ''Peru's Former President Plots His Return to Power'' (news article, Dec. 22): As president, Alberto Fujimori trampled democracy and controlled the military, the judiciary, Congress and most of the media. And he used our...

Five years ago a military court here condemned Lori Berenson, a former M.I.T. student and the daughter of two New York City college professors, to a life sentence on charges she was involved in a terrorist plan to seize the Peruvian Congress and take...

February 4, 2001, Sunday

Wheeling a suitcase behind them, Rhoda and Mark L. Berenson looked like any retired couple off for a vacation as they waited in an American Airlines ticket line at La Guardia Airport yesterday afternoon. But the man in front of them in line knew...

August 30, 2000, Wednesday

To the Editor: ''Jailed Unjustly, Peruvians Try to Rebuild Shattered Lives'' (front page, July 17) painfully reminds us that our daughter Lori, an American citizen, has been subjected to the same unjust imprisonment in Peru, given a life sentence...

July 21, 2000, Friday

To the Editor: You report (front page, April 13) that Peru's president, Alberto K. Fujimori, now faces a runoff, having failed to win the needed 50 percent of the vote in an election that was marred by charges of improprieties.

April 14, 2000, Friday

To the Editor: Peru must be held accountable to international law and its multilateral commitments if it wants to be recognized as a responsible country by the world community, even if the Peruvian public does not find this important (Week in...

NEWSLETTERS and fliers cover the coffee table in Mark and Rhoda Berenson's living room on the East Side, instruments of persuasion in a campaign to free their daughter Lori Helene Berenson from a mountain prison in Peru. ''We're literally a...

July 4, 1998, Saturday

THESE should be days of dread for Mark and Rhoda Berenson in their East Side apartment. Common sense suggests so, given the spectacular rescue mission last week ending Peru's long hostage crisis. Political and military hard-liners in that country are...

The parents of a New York woman who is serving a life sentence for terrorism have been allowed to visit her for the first time -- in Peru's most notorious prison in this bleak, bitter-cold town 12,700 feet high in the Andes. The couple, Mark and...